Fine Motor Skills is the most important element in developing good handwriting at school. Fine motor skills are very important to early childhood activities. In order to develop and strengthen hand and finger muscles, working with their hands is how they get ready to write,type, draw, button, zip and much more.
Here is a list of Fine Motor materials you already have around the house, to use while planning hands-on activities at home. Make sure you include atleast one fine motor activity in a day.
- Paper
- Aluminium Foil
- Ziploc Bags
- Clothespins
- Buttons
- Playdoh
- Counters
- Clay
- Dice
- Ice
- Jars
- Lids of the jars
- Pom-Poms
- Newspaper
- Magazines
- Junk Mail
- Scissor
- Glue
- Keys
- Ice cube trays
- Kitchen utensils like spoons, bowls, spatula jars etc.
- Paper clips
- Hair clips
- Old clothes, shoes and accessories
- Q-tips
- Rubber Bands
- Straws
- Tongs
- Water Bottles or Recycled bottles like Shampoo and Moisturizer
- Empty Boxes or Recycled Boxes
- Yarn
- Zippers
Hope you enjoyed a quick list of all the materials that we can use at home to help develop fine motor skills at home of our kids. Please let me know in the comments below, which one’s are your kid’s favs.